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Deputy Digital Minister Dariusz Standerski said in a TV interview<\/a> that, “since the president decided to veto this law, I’m assuming he is also willing to have these costs [of a potential fine] charged to the budget of the President\u2019s Office.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nawrocki’s refusal to sign the bill brings back bad memories of Warsaw’s years-long clash with Brussels over the rule of law, a conflict that began when Nawrocki’s Law and Justice party rose to power in 2015 and started reforming the country’s courts and regulators. The EU imposed \u20ac320 million in penalties on Poland<\/a> from 2021-2023.<\/p>\n

Warsaw was already in a fight with the Commission over its slow implementation of the tech rulebook since 2024<\/a>, when the EU executive put Poland on notice for delaying the law’s implementation and for not designating a responsible authority. In May last year<\/a> Brussels took Warsaw to court over the issue.<\/p>\n

If the EU imposes new fines over the rollout of digital rules, it would “reignite debates reminiscent of the rule-of-law mechanism and frozen funds disputes,\u201d said Jakub Szymik, founder of Warsaw-based non-profit watchdog group CEE Digital Democracy Watch.<\/p>\n

Failure to implement the tech law could in the long run even lead to fines and penalties accruing over time, as happened when Warsaw refused to reform its courts during the earlier rule of law crisis.<\/p>\n

The European Commission said in a statement that it “will not comment on national legislative procedures.” It added that “implementing the [Digital Services Act] into national law is essential to allow users in Poland to benefit from the same DSA rights.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deputy Digital Minister Dariusz Standerski said in a TV interview that, “since the president decided to veto this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[7798,7799,7800,8173,1664,1740,2421,6156,3596,12,279,7801,469,402,7802,3598,248,5309,1433,2289,1087,4020],"class_list":{"0":"post-8718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-karol-nawrocki","8":"tag-algorithms","9":"tag-consumer-policy","10":"tag-content-moderation","11":"tag-copyright","12":"tag-courts","13":"tag-customs","14":"tag-data","15":"tag-data-protection","16":"tag-digital-services-act","17":"tag-donald-trump","18":"tag-donald-tusk","19":"tag-e-commerce","20":"tag-fuels","21":"tag-karol-nawrocki","22":"tag-online-advertising","23":"tag-platforms","24":"tag-poland","25":"tag-regulation","26":"tag-rule-of-law","27":"tag-services","28":"tag-social-media","29":"tag-transparency"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116346185573449485","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}